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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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